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Fantasia

Fantasia is a colorful Disney classic that combines great musical works and corresponding, elaborate images. Walt Disney's supreme creativity truly shows in the movie as he takes classic songs such as Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria and blends them with cleverly drawn up characters that enact the music in each of the "skits". Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria are the two final acts of this master piece. In Night on Bald Mountain, Disney portrays a large demon raising the dead and toying with other demons as the orchestra plays a rapid string segment. Ave Maria is a very tranquil segment in which flutes are playing as parades of people march through the woods into a paradise with a raising sun. The two seem connected, however, in that at the end of the demon's tormenting of the smaller demons, church bells are chiming in the background that seem to put the demon at bay and return him into the mountain from which he came. The scene then moves to the march of people walking off into the forest with the church bells still chiming which gives the effect of a victory. If looked at as one connected segment, it is easy to break it down into a conflict, climax, and resolution. The conflict is the period of time while the demon is toying with the smaller demons, the climax is the church bells defeating the demon, and the resolution is the people walking into the paradise. One may ponder how it came to be that these images where drawn up to go along with the music. Where there hours of deliberations amongst a team of artists? Or was it just a quick sketch off the top of one mans head? One perceives the music corresponding with the images in three subsections of this segment of the movie: a conflict, climax, and resolution.
In the opening of the being of Night on Bald Mountain, spooky music plays as a large demon rises from a greenish glowing mountain and proceeds to raise the dead out of the cemetery and open the gates of hell as smaller demons crawl out form...

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